Wednesday FGS

2 killed, 16 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Read the article here: Chicago Sun Times

Victim uses battle ax to fend off home invader

by: Barton Deiters
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A man is alive and well after he used an ax to fend off a convicted criminal who broke into his Oshtemo Township apartment late Wednesday night.

Ben Ball, 36, used a replica battle ax to keep the intruder at bay.

The 33-year-old suspect, Alex Lavell Rawls, is now in jail facing a charge of first-degree home invasion, which could put him in prison for a maximum of 20 years.

Ball says that the suspect dated his former roommate who left to get away. The suspect showed up at the apartment around 11:30 p.m., thinking she was there.

The suspect knocked on the door repeatedly, then kicked it in, while Ball was in his apartment playing video games and watching Rick and Morty.

Ball said he had reason to believe the suspect had a firearm.

“(The) door opened, (I) grabbed the ax, (then) step, step, hit.”

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Hat tip to upnorth259 for the article, which may be viewed here:
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Woman shot while attempting to break into apartments, police say

By: Siobhan Riley
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A woman was shot while attempting to break into a Raleigh apartment she claimed was hers.

Police were called to The Coves at Yale apartments in the 5000 block of Yale Road Sunday.

Erika Glass is charged with aggravated burglary.
One neighbor said she was asleep when she heard someone trying to break into several homes.

“I heard a boom coming from across the hall, and my husband, my daughter and I jumped,” she told FOX13. “And I heard after that a woman say ‘She shot me.’”

The resident told FOX13 that Glass started banging on her patio door around 4 a.m. Sunday. That’s when she heard noises that sounded like gunshots and glass breaking.

“I haven’t really slept since then,” she said.

She told FOX13 she heard someone trying to get in through her 15-year-old son’s bedroom window.

“My neighbors said he or she was going around twisting the nobs and ringing the doorbells,” she said.

The victim told police she asked Glass to get away from her door. She said Glass wouldn’t leave. That’s when the suspect allegedly broke the glass on the patio door.

According to police, the victim shot the suspect when she came into the home.

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Off her meds. or on the wrong ones? The rest of the article may be viewed here: Fox 13 Memphis

Oklahoma police chief in Florida for conference allegedly killed by fellow officer
Oklahoma police officer Michael Patrick Nealey is in custody on suspicion of murder, according to Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. He’s been arrested for killing his boss, Lucky Miller, chief of the Mannford Police Department.

By Nicole Darrah
An Oklahoma police chief was reportedly killed by an officer in his department Sunday night while the two attended a conference together in Florida.

Lucky Miller, chief of the Mannford Police Department, died Sunday after a “physical altercation” with another Mannford police officer, authorities said. The other officer was identified in local reports as Michael Nealey.

Online records from the Escambia County Jail in Pensacola, Fla., show Nealey, 49, was booked Monday morning on homicide charges.

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No words. Read the rest of the article here: Fox News.com

Today brings us a tally of one DRT, three inconvenienced and none in the wind, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. Not all I come across for posting here feel good- the Mannford OK PD shooting is a case in point. It’s tragic, but maybe there are some lessons to be learned here. Or old lessons that need to be reinforced.

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. — Alexis de Tocqueville

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